Am I just stupid, or is a large portion of this rather hard to comprehend?
I'm finding myself rereading some parts three plus times and still not understanding what Augustine meant.
Am I just stupid, or is a large portion of this rather hard to comprehend?
Brandon Lee
Matthew Thompson
It's even worse in his city of god. You needed big brain.
Alexander Butler
It's not an easy read
Nathaniel Martin
People will tell you the book is a biography. These people are wrong. Cast aside all your received opinions about this book and it will read smoother.
Leo Brooks
He is widely read and discussed to this day for a reason, user.
Jeremiah Young
>when you get to the part where he talks about his philosophy of time
Hudson Ramirez
Cute piccy, is that you? uwu
Leo Mitchell
I'm about half way though, and it definitely is a biography. It just has neoplatonism/Christian metaphysics/Manicheism/Augustines own philosophical evolution and general philosophy mixed in. It is a book about his life, and his conversion was the pivotal moment. He came to it through philosophy so these ideas cannot be removed from the story of his life.
The hardest part for me is working out which of these is he is talking about in a certain section. When he talks about the idea that God cannot be in all things because then he could be more in a large thing than in a small thing is actually a denunciation of Manicheism rather than his own opinions, and this is what really messes with me. I didn't realise this until reading the section over like seven times.
I also didn't have even the briefest understanding of neoplatonism before beginning this, so I'm totally blown away by all these ideas coming full force at you all at once.
Kayden Butler
The man had a lot of neat things to say about time. It's true.
Jack Young
"Time is a creature" is one of the most important things you can learn from a basic study of theology. It refutes a lot of the really basic, entry-level critiques atheists level at Christianity.